VPT asks for more state funding

Legislators ask about CPB investigation

More than $1 million of Vermont Public Television's funding could be in question following action by a Canadian advisory board.

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More than $1 million of Vermont Public Television's funding could be in question following action by a Canadian advisory board.

Vermont Public Television is asking the state to up its funding by 2 percent. Thursday's House Appropriations Committee hearing coincidentally comes as more than $1 million could be pulled from the television station.

Sources tell WPTZ that some of the nearly two dozen closed door meetings held by Vermont Public Television’s board of directors over the past two years focused on the station’s President and CEO, John King.

A committee tasked to audit Vermont Public Television’s board of directors acknowledged the panel held meetings that were not accessible to the public, but added the subject of the meetings needed to be kept confidential.